Re: End Pours - CH17

Posted by Howard on May 8, 2005

if you are going to pour your end pour...then dick is spot on...you need to use unthickened epoxy.

but if you are building a dam....make it thick.

the advantages of the approach of building the end pour prior to putting the deck on include....

1) you place the end pour exactly where you want it, in the size you want it...becuase you are not working blind....you can therefore get a lighter/stronger result becuase you don't over-use epoxy to make up for what you can't see.

2) you can work with thickened epoxy..which gives a lighter/stronger result compared to unthickened epoxy which is more dense.

so i disagree with dick....you will not be compromizing strength by doing your end-pour prior to putting the deck on. this is a construction preference issue...with its attendent plusses and minuses.

if you look at the plans carefully...the purpose of the end pour is to ensure that you have a place to drill grab handle holes without compromizing your floatation and to ensure the bow and stern hull/deck interface are tied together...they are not there to "fill-up" the ends...so if you were building end pours by the pour method...you would not stand the boat up on end...but actually lean it back over on its deck about 45degrees to concentrate the epoxy on the hull/deck corners.

if you build dams...they should take this account as well...and not be in the vertical posistion like a bulkhead...but should cut the corner so your expoxy is in the top corner.

In Response to: Re: End Pours - CH17 by Dick R on May 8, 2005

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